Extract: Drag, Drop and Click to Web Extraordinary

When Adobe released the Project Parfait beta in April 2014, the team knew it had something wonderful on its hands. But the tool—which enables front-end developers to effortlessly transform comps into code by dropping PSDs into a browser—was met with excitement that the team could never have predicted. (Really. Check out what people were saying on Twitter.)

At that time, Project Parfait was a standalone web app. Fast-forward to today… We’ve named the tool Extract and a Preview version has been integrated into Creative Cloud Files. It’s one more time-saving addition to Creative Cloud.

Assets in the Asset Panel

Less back-and-forth

The new feature in Creative Cloud Files enables Web designers and developers, who work with PSD files, to easily create code-based design from Photoshop CC compositions. That means extracting style information and image assets, copying text and CSS, grabbing color, gradient and font information, measuring distances between elements, and saving optimized image assets for production—with a drag, a drop, and a click of the mouse. From a single PSD file. Directly in Creative Cloud Files.

And the best news: Anyone with a free or paid Creative Cloud account can upload a PSD file to Creative Cloud Files and use Extract. Not only that, but once an Extract link has been shared, the recipient doesn’t need to be logged-in to a Creative Cloud account to pull assets and measurements from the file.

Be sure to follow Adobe Creative Cloud: Web on Facebook and Twitter to tell us how we can make Extract better, easier to use, or, heck, just to pass along some love to the team.

Sue Garibaldi

Sue joined Adobe with a background in publishing. She worked for many years as an editor at the foremost publication in the creative industry (Communication Arts magazine) where she spent many years writing, editing and distilling content for print and the web. She cultivated an ability to manage writers and other creative types (who can frequently be difficult to compel); wrote about things she's passionate about and others she found tedious; and (in all that time) never missed a deadline.